Cook (Part-Time/Evening)- Einstein Montgomery Medical Center

Albert Einstein Medical Center; East Norriton Township (Montgomery County); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Albert Einstein Medical Center in East Norriton, PA seeks a Cook to prepare meals for patients, staff, and guests while upholding high quality, flavor, and safety standards. The role involves using various cooking methods, managing portions, and maintaining HACCP records in a fast-paced hospital kitchen.

Responsibilities include planning production schedules, ensuring timely service, and adhering to sanitation and quality guidelines.

Qualifications

• Prepare foods for patients, staff and visitors according to recipes and production orders.
• Maintain HACCP and production records.
• Follow health standards for food handling and sanitation.

Responsibilities

• Competently prepare select foods for patients, staff & visitors that are of the highest quality, visually and taste.
• Braise, sauté, broil, boil, stew, steam, bake and grill to proper cooking time and temperature; safely hold food at all times.
• Prepare entrees, soups, sauces and vegetables according to recipes; record usage to ensure proper preparation and cost control.
• Assemble ingredients, portion, label and date for storage or transport.
• Maintain proper handling, storage, cooling and delivery of food and supplies to ensure patient/customer safety using HACCP guidelines.
• Maintain HACCP and production records.
• Check food during service to ensure timely service.
• Plan cooking and prepping schedule to have foods ready at specified times.
• Adhere to food quality standards of appearance, taste, temperature and sanitation.
• Store leftovers appropriately and reuse in subsequent menus.
• Complete cleaning to maintain sanitation in cooking and serving areas.
• Participate in department in-services and other assigned duties.

Skills

Food preparation

HACCP

Sanitation procedures

Food safety

Job description

Number of Positions In Requisition 1

Job Details Under direction of the Lead Cook, Food Service Supervisor, Food Service Manager, Production Manager, or Executive Chef, the Cook is responsible for preparing food according to standard recipes and ensuring superior quality food which meets standards for flavor, texture, appearance, temperature, nutritional value and palatability for patients, patrons and catering guests. Categories of foods include but are not limited to entrees, soups, sauces and vegetables. The cook is responsible to ensure the proper recording of HACCP and production records. At all times, correct food handling and sanitary procedures in accordance with health regulatory standards are integral to this position.

Job Description

• Competently prepare select foods for patients, staff & visitors that are of the highest quality, visually and taste. (40%)
• Professionally braise, sauté, broil, boil, stew, steam, bake and grill to proper cooking time and temperature; safely hold food at all times. (20%)
• Prepare and portions entrees, soups, and sauces and vegetables according to recipes and production orders. Records usage on production records in order to ensure that foods are prepared correctly and costs are maintained. (40%)
• Assembles ingredients and prepares recipe; portion, label and date for storage or transport. (10%)
• Maintains proper handling, storage, cooling and delivery of food and supplies to ensure patient/customer safety using HACCP guidelines. (10%)
• Maintains proper HACCP and production records (10%)
• Maintains proper handling, storage, cooling and delivery of food and supplies to ensure patient/customer safety using HACCP guidelines. (10%)
• Checks on food during service in the patient and non-patient areas in order to ensure that there are no delays in service. (5%)
• Plans cooking and prepping schedule so that foods will be ready at specified times. (5%)
• Adheres to food quality standards of appearance, taste, temperature and sanitation. (5%)
• Stores leftovers appropriately and utilized same in subsequent day/menu in order to ensure that they are served within timeframe. (5%)
• Completes cleaning assignments in order to ensure that sanitation standards are maintained in cooking and serving areas. (5%)
• Participates in and attends all department in services to maintain department operating standards. (5%)
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Shift

Rotating (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular Employee

Entity

Albert Einstein Medical Center

Primary Location Address

559 W. Germantown Pike, East Norriton, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Employer Overview

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.

University

Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.

Health System

Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.

Health Plans

Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.

Tuition Benefits

Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.

Medical Coverage

All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance. For more benefits information, please click here

Mission and Culture

In keeping with Jefferson's Mission, We Improve Lives, it is our goal to recruit, retain, develop and reward highly-qualified employees. If you are enthusiastic, caring and dedicated to service excellence, we invite you to consider joining Jefferson. Jefferson encourages its employees to expand their knowledge and develop their careers through growth opportunities and continuing education. With a long standing history, Jefferson has been advancing the medical field from the heart of Center City Philadelphia for nearly 200 years. Our Mission, We Improve Lives, expands to every corner of the organization. From our weekly farmer’s market, to our new Jefferson Accelerator Zone for innovation, our employees’ passion for the community is evident by the daily gestures towards our patients, students and each other.